In a scene from the TV show 30 Rock, a 55-year-old Steve Buscemi dresses up like a high school student and asks, ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’. That’s what this GNO production of La Bohème felt like. Four non-artistic

We celebrate the 150th birthday of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) in 2025, and Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho has just recorded the complete piano music of the French master. 2025 also marks a decade since the pianist was awarded first prize in

OUR Recordings release of O Listen! To The Music of Uroš Krek & Else Marie Pade, performed by the Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Martina Batič, conductor, brings us the music of two composers who were contemporaries and were nurtured by

In the first collection of the music of the American composer Lee Kesselman, Were that Loving Were Enough, Haven (voice, clarinet, piano trio) showcases his music from 1920s pop to Japanese-influenced haiku settings. Kesselman’s musical and literary influences extend from

Not all composers are lost with their manuscripts. Some composers are simply lost to the accretions of time: if they were active when many other composers were active, they might just be buried under the weight of the ages. For

This year, 2024, is the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini in November of 1924. Known for his brilliant and spectacularly admired operas, he was virtually the Taylor Swift of his era. My husband and I

American pianist James Iman continues to release ground-breaking albums which challenge convention (his previous recording with music by Debussy is a case in point) and which present lesser-known or rarely-performed repertoire written since 1900 and specifically post-1945. He’s one of

When you think of an album organised around the idea of water, the usual suspects come to mind: Debussy and the sea, Ravel and the play of water, but when you start to look beyond that, water has some other